Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will arrange to retain the points connecting Poulton-le-Fylde's disused railway line to Fleetwood.

The Secretary of State asked the new Chairman of Network Rail, Sir Peter Hendy, to review the delivery of all projects across the entire Rail enhancements portfolio.

In the Blackpool North electrification scheme as it is currently defined, the connecting points will be removed from their current location as they restrict speed on a sharp curve towards Blackpool, but an allowance has been made in the design for a new, ‎simpler, connection, should the need arise to reconnect the line in future.